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Hospitals across the Milwaukee area told WISN 12 News they have action plans set in place in the event someone walks through their door with a possible case of Ebola but declined to share those plans.

The medical director of the city of Milwaukee, Dr. Geoffery Swain reiterated that local health care systems are ready to handle the deadly disease.

"Yes, I'm confident. We have very high quality health care systems in Milwaukee and this state," Swain said.

Swain said city clinics and health care facilities across the county are on alert for steps to take if someone shows up with symptoms similar to Ebola.

"If a person comes in and either reports, or through questioning is elicited, a travel history through one of these countries that has a lot of Ebola right now, and they have symptoms, then, yes, immediately those protocols go into place," Swain said.

The Milwaukee Health Department gets its orders from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and is in contact with them daily either on the phone or online, but the city's health department can create stricter guidelines to fight the disease and will if need be.

"We are all learning rapidly from what's happened in Texas and doing everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen here," Swain said.

Swain said if there's a suspected case of Ebola in Milwaukee, his department will be notified right away even before lab tests confirm a diagnosis.

He said that will help in the efforts to stop the spread of this disease.